Metabolic Syndrome: Causes, Criteria, and Corrections to Optimize Long-Term Metabolic Health

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Cindi Lockhart, RDN, LD, IFNCP Related seminars and products

Lockhart Wellness Solutions, LLC

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Cindi Lockhart, RDN, LD, IFNCP, is board-certified as an integrative and functional nutrition practitioner with over 30 years in professional practice. She has trained nutrition, fitness, and medical practitioners throughout most of her career, yet maintains a personal practice with clients as she believes that the only way she can effectively educate and inspire other practitioners is through her own practical experience with clients. In addition to educating on how Food is Medicine, Cindi also specializes in coaching clients and practitioners on the importance of managing stress, optimizing sleep, proper exercise and movement, and reducing exposure to environmental toxins. Cindi has extensive expertise in women’s health issues including perimenopause/menopause and thyroid dysfunction as well as autoimmunity, gut health, weight management, cardiometabolic health (insulin resistance, diabetes, heart disease), fasting, histamine intolerance, mold detox, and long COVID.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Cindi Lockhart is the owner and founder of Lockhart Wellness Solutions, LLC. and is a contributing author for Experience Life Magazine. She receives compensation from Fullscript. Cindi Lockhart receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Cindi Lockhart is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Dietitians in Integrative & Functional Medicine, the Institute for Functional Medicine, and the Integrative & Functional Nutrition Academy.

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Objectives

1. Distinguish the diagnostic criteria for and health risks associated with metabolic syndrome.
2. Evaluate the impact of the microbiome and environmental toxins on the risk for metabolic syndrome.
3. Determine a customized and systemized approach to reversing metabolic syndrome via the proper nutrition, activity, sleep, mindfulness, and reduction in environmental toxin exposure.

Outline

• Diagnostic Criteria for Metabolic Syndrome:
  • Excess abdominal fat / waist circumference
  • Altered fats in the blood: low HDL cholesterol and high triglycerides
  • High blood pressure (or currently taking medication for it)
  • High blood sugar
  • Prevalence
  • Associated health risks
• Impact of the microbiome on metabolic syndrome risk
  • Oral microbiome & periodontitis
  • Colonic microbiome
  • SCFA’s
  • LPS & endotoxemia
    • TMAO
• Impact of environmental toxins on metabolic syndrome risk
  • Bisphenol A
  • Phthalates
  • PFAS
  • PAHs & POPs
  • Pesticides
  • Heavy metals
• The Gold Standard: Lifestyle Medicine as Treatment
• Nutrition
  • Dietary modifications
  • Fasting
  • Dietary strategies to optimize the microbiome
• Exercise
  • Structured exercise
  • General activity
• Sleep
  • Circadian rhythms
  • Timing, duration, & quality
• Stress management
  • Mindfulness tactics
• Environmental toxins & detoxification
  • Reducing exposure
  • Supporting detox pathways
• Care coordination

Target Audience

• Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Physician Assistants